Konferenz in Batumi, Georgien
05.09.2017 – 06.09.2017 · 10.00 Uhr
Port Cities as Contact Zones and Cities of Exception (with a special focus on the Black Sea after 1774)
ZfL-Projekt(e): Batumi, Odessa, Trabzon
Die Konferenz findet im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts Batumi, Odessa, Trabzon. Kulturelle Semantik des Schwarzen Meeres aus der Perspektive östlicher Hafenstädte des ZfL und der Staatlichen Ilia Universität Tbilissi statt. Das Projekt wird gefördert von der VolkswagenStiftung.
Programm
Dienstag, 05.09.2017
10:00 Uhr
Zaal Andronikashvili (ZfL/ISU), Giga Zedania (ISU): Opening Remarks
Panel I. Maritime Topographies
10:30 Uhr
Lauren Jacobi (MIT): Nomos of the Sea. The Late Medieval Mediterranean as Territory
Hannah Baader (MPI for Art History Florence): Urbanism, Thalassography and the Paradigms of Maritime Histories
Panel II. Black Sea Port-Cities Between Land and Sea
12:30 Uhr
Gelina Harlaftis (Institute for Mediterranean Studies/Foundation of Research and Technology - Hellas & Ionian University): Maritime transport systems, dynamic change of port-cities and the globalization process of the eastern shore of the Black Sea in the 19th century
Αnna Sydorenko (Institute for Mediterranean Studies/Foundation of Research and Technology – Hellas): Imperial interests in the Crimean port-cities. Sebastopol: main export port or military naval base?
15:00 Uhr
A walk trough old and new Batumi and Batumi Port with Shota Gujabidze (author of »Journey to Old Batumi«)
18:00 Uhr
Keynote Lecture von Eyüp Özveren (METU): A Revisit to the Black Sea World and its Port Cities in Comparative Perspective
Mittwoch, 06.09.2017
Panel III. Batumi-Odessa-Trabzon
10:00 Uhr
Candan Badem (Tunceli): Trabzon as a port city and point of exchange between the Russian and Ottoman empires
Eka Tchkoidze (ISU): Russian imperial strategy to make port cities into contact zones (South Caucasus railway network and Batumi in the 1880s–1910s)
12:00 Uhr
Vera Skvirskaya (University of Copenhagen): Reconfiguring Odessan identity: between »Novorossiia« and a Deep Blue Sea
Panel IV. The Modern Life of Port Cities
14:00 Uhr
Claudia De Martino (UNIMED): Globalizing the Levantine cities over State-boundaries: the forerunners of change
Giorgi Ghvinjilia (ISU): Seaside and Ethnography of Season Economics in Batumi
16:00 Uhr
Round Table: Towards the Theory of Port Cities (mit Zaal Andronikashvili, Hannah Baader, Candan Badem, Esma Berikishvili, Giorgi Ghvinjilia, Claudia De Martino, Gelina Harlaftis, Georges Khalil, Lauren Jacobi, Giorgi Maisuradze, Eyüp Özveren, Vera Skvirskaya, Anna Sydorenko, Giga Zedania)
18:00 Uhr
Visit of the Photographic Exhibition Odessa/Batumi Photo Days 2017